Before you believe much or any of that, you might want to take a look at his "Political" associations!
Political organizer and aide While he was a student-at-law, Levant was an active political organizer in the
Reform Party, and guided the successful attempts by
Rahim Jaffer (as the campaign manager for his nomination in
Edmonton-Strathcona and later as his communications-director during the 1997 Federal Election) and
Rob Anders to win party nominations.[SUP]
[10][/SUP] In 1997, he went to Ottawa to work for the Reform Party, becoming a parliamentary aide to party leader
Preston Manning and being put in charge of
Question Period strategy.[SUP]
[6][/SUP] Along with newly-elected MP's
Rob Anders,
Jason Kenney and
Rahim Jaffer, Levant was part of an up and coming group of young Reformers which pundits dubbed the "Snack Pack" due to their relative youth.
In 1999, after being dismissed as Preston Manning's legislative-assistant, Levant left Ottawa to join the editorial board of the fledgling
National Post newspaper in Toronto.[SUP]
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[11][/SUP] A close friend of
Stockwell Day's son
Logan, Levant proclaimed himself a "Stockaholic"[SUP]
[12][/SUP] and supported the elder Day in his successful attempt to defeat Reform Party leader Preston Manning for the leadership of the new Canadian Alliance.[SUP]
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In February 2001, he returned to Ottawa as communications director to Day.[SUP][13][/SUP] In May of that year he resigned after leaking to the National Post a letter that he sent to dissident MP Chuck Strahl in which he threatened to sue over Strahl's criticisms of his office.[SUP][14][/SUP][SUP][15][/SUP][SUP][16]
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[edit] Candidacy and resignation
Later in 2001, Levant returned to Calgary to practice law. By February 2002 he had won the Canadian Alliance party nomination for the riding of Calgary Southwest,[SUP][17][/SUP] but stepped aside after public pressure so that new party leader Stephen Harper could run there in a 2002 by-election. When the by-election was called, Levant, who said he spent over $150,000 to gain the nomination,[SUP][18][/SUP] announced on March 28 that he would not step aside.[SUP][12][/SUP][SUP][19][/SUP] Later that night, however, he relented after widespread pressure from the party and accusations that he was putting himself ahead of the party.[SUP][20]
Once you read the above... you can decide: Is he loyal to his party? Does "talk with forked tongue"!
FYI... The one and ONLY thing that put a "hold" on the Keystone Pipeline is the 12,000-13,000 protesting citizens that showed up on Obama's doorstep on a crisp November morning... google it! Oh, btw... you'll be starting to hear some more on that pipeline as it is NOT DEAD... just on "HOLD"!
Harper and gonies just at work spreading their BS. It really does put things in prospective. Bush and Obama both were/are harmless compared Harper. Harper is downright dangerous!
